PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Metacognition, Egocentrism
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Cognitive development: changes in how people think, solve problems, memory capacity. Brain doesn"t physically change but becomes much more efficient. Children of dif ages think differently; actively learners, want to learn. Against behaviorist tabula rosa idea that it is up to environment to teach. Discontinuous (entirely dif ways of thinking; separate), distinct stages of development. Maturation: driving force bw staged; genetically based development. Schemes: active construction of reality; mental framework to organize and interpret info. Assimilation: new info is altered to fit into an existing scheme (football, baseball) Accommodation: changing the scheme to adapt to new info (dog scheme is all 4 legged creatures; wait no, that is called a cat not a dog = new category: cat ) Learn to coordinate activities of senses w/ motor activities. Presenting the world symbolically (w/ language); egocentric belief (the world is from their own perspective) Increased use of mental operations; logical reasoning about concrete events; conservation understanding.
